Beck And Call Quotes

• The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

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  Sammy Hagar

  Family   Baby   Wife  

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• At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

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  Jeremy Paxman

  Art   People   Beck And Call  

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  3950

• God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith   Trying   Body  

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

  1893

• As an actor, when you're actually trying to embody what it would be like to just know that everyone's at your beck and call, it's quite a thing to absorb what that might be like and what that would do.

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  Linus Roache

  Trying   Would Be   Actors  

  "Interview: Linus Roache discusses his ‘Vikings’ King and his ‘Blacklist’ Kingmaker". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 3, 2014.

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• There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

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  Anthony Hecht

  Memories   Library   Poet  

  2954

• With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.

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  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Medicine   United States   Patents  

  Collier's Weekly 7 October (1905)

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• Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.

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  Henry Van Dyke

  Soul   Weakness   Unrest  

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

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  William Faulkner

  Two   Long   People  

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• Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

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  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Opportunity   Two   Luxury  

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